Pedro Domingos Quotes

Having beaten off the OpenAI threat, Google went back to sleep.

The future belongs to skilled blue-collar workers and skilled users of AI. Advice to students: become one or both before it’s too late.

The universe laughs at your linear assumptions.

Legacy academia will go the way of legacy media.

Don't reward coders (or anyone) for using AI. Set goals that they couldn't achieve without it.

My AI class has no syllabus because the things I’ll be teaching later in the semester don’t exist yet.

AI is the IT department’s worst nightmare.

If there’s an area where infinite progress is possible, it’s mathematics. AI is not the end of mathematics, it’s the beginning.

The most important skill in the AI economy is knowing how to train your AI.

To a first approximation, American higher education consists of women getting useless degrees, racking up debt and being indoctrinated that it’s all men’s fault.

AI will make a genius of you.

Americans are the most afraid of AI job losses because American companies actually lay off the employees they don’t need.

Genius is coming up with absurd ideas that work really well.

Current AI is based on the simplest possible theory of intelligence: none. Unfortunately that means it’s 100% hacks.

Your brain doesn't know what gradient descent is, and learns better than any neural network.